The production of chlorinated paraffins for use in lubricant additives and metalworking fluids will grow steadily in coming years in the Asia-Pacific ...

Pakistans Oil and Gas Regulation Authority has granted an unprecedented number of marketing licenses to lubricant players in recent months in hopes of ...

Five government agencies recently joined hands in an effort to curb illegal lubricant trading in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The group, which was als ...

Tianhe Chemicals Group Ltd. said it is complying with - but not the subject of - a Hong Kong government anti-bribery agencys investigation into possib ...

Emeka Umejei reports on the regulatory environment in Africa.

As the Association of Southeast Asia Nations moves to eliminate intra-regional tariffs by 2018, analysts say member countries non-tariff measures coul ...

In late December, Californias Department of Food and Agricultures Division of Measurement Standards disclosed that Smittys Supply Inc. paid $751,555 t ...

The South Korean government has moved to eliminate more than half of all registered domestic lubricants manufacturers in an effort to weed out non-ope ...

Holdups keep hounding the creators of ILSAC GF-6, API SP and Dexos1:2015 engine oils, as if they were stuck in Groundhog Day. General Motors' Eric Joh ...

A consultant from the U.K.s REACH Centre summarizes the status of the regulations implementation.

Brazils National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels raised the minimum performance levels for lubricants sold in Brazil, effective from the ...

A turf spat between government agencies has lubricant blenders in Nigeria doing double the paperwork and paying double the fees. Nigerian lube compani ...

Japan removed hydraulic fluids, mainly silahydrocarbon oils, from the Export Trade Control Order list of goods, opening the way for exports to begin J ...

China implemented National V fuel emissions standard nationwide last week. Lubricant additive supplier Infineum International called it a reminder tha ...

A local lubricant and grease association was recently founded in Tianjin, China, a city near Beijing that has attracted a growing number of blenders.

Australias Jan. 1 deadline to comply with a global system of chemical labeling requirements has some of the market's lube traders scrambling to prepar ...

The Union of the European Lubricant Industry recently helped defeat a proposal to bring bulk lubricants under the European Unions Excise Movement and ...

Citing rising crude palm oil prices, Malaysia again postponed implementation of the B10 biodiesel program in its transportation sector and B7 in its i ...

Global grease production was relatively stable from 2010 to 2015, hovering around 1.1 million tons annually. Sales were affected by end user demands, ...

Tom Glenn foresees a slow uptake on API CJ-4 and FA-4 oils.